Author: Bob Dylan
Cited by
- John Burdett (2)
- IN: Bangkok Haunts (2007) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: You cast your spell and I went under / I find it so difficult to leave
FROM: "Tonight I'll be Staying Here with You", (1969), Song, US
- IN: The Godfather of Kathmandu (2010) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: There must be some way out of here.
FROM: "All Along the Watchtower", (1968), Song, US
- Paul Durcan (1)
- IN: Teresa's Bar (1976) Poetry, Irish
EPIGRAPH: Who's gonna throw that minstreel boy coin
Who's gonna let it roll
Who's gonna throw that minstrel boy a coin
Who's gonna let if down easy to save his soul
FROM: Minstrel Boy, (1970), Song, US
- De La Cruz, Melissa (1)
- IN: Gates of Paradise (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door.
FROM: NULL, (1973), Song, US
- Melissa de la Cruz (1)
- IN: Gates of Paradise (2013) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door.
FROM: Knockin' on Heaven's Door, (1973), Song, US
- Kris D'Agostino (1)
- IN: The Sleepy Hollow family almanac (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: For the ones condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting.
FROM: Chimes of Freedom, (1964), Song, US
- Stephen King (1)
- IN: The Long Walk (1979) Fiction, Psychological Horror, Dystopia, American
EPIGRAPH: The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handle.
FROM: Subterranean Homesick Blues, (1962), Song, US
- Ed Gorman (1)
- IN: Ticket to Ride (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: So let us not talk falsely now the hour is getting late
FROM: All Along the Watchtower, (1968), Song, US
- Ben Winters (1)
- IN: The Last Policeman (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: And there's a slow, slow train comin', up around the bend.
FROM: Slow Train, (1979), Song, US
- Meg Wolitzer (1)
- IN: The Interestings (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: While riding on a train goin' west
I fell asleep for to take my rest
I dreamed a dream that made me sad
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had.
FROM: Bob Dylan's Dream, (1963), Song, US
- Peter Walker (1)
- IN: Some Here Among Us (2014) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I.
FROM: All Along the Watchtower, (1968), Song, US
- Lisa Scottoline (1)
- IN: Save Me (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: You give something up for ev'rything you gain.
FROM: Silvio, (1988), Song, US
- Brad Meltzer (1)
- IN: The Millionaires (2002) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Twenty-three percent of people
say they would steal if they couldn’t get caught.
… but to live outside the law, you must be honest.
FROM: Absolutely Sweet Marie, (1966), Song, US
- Iain McDowall (1)
- IN: Perfectly Dead (2003) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: The geometry of innocent flesh on the bone.
FROM: Tombstone Blues, (1965), Song, US
- Justin Cronin (1)
- IN: The Summer Guest (2004) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I’ll look for you in old Honolulu,
San Francisco, Ashtabula,
Yer gonna have to leave me now, I know.
But I’ll see you in the sky above,
In the tall grass, in the ones I love,
Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go.
FROM: You’re Gonna Make Me
Lonesome When You Go, (1975), Song, US
- Ben H. Winters (2)
- IN: The Last Policeman (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: And there's a slow, slow train comin', up around the bend.
FROM: Slow Train, (1979), Song, US
- IN: World of Trouble (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: And I won't let go and I can't let go
I won't let go and I can't let go
I won't let go and I can't let go no more
FROM: Solid Rock, (1980), Song, US
- Jennifer Weiner (1)
- IN: Who Do You Love (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I married Isis on the fifth day of May But I could not hold on to her very long So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away For the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.
FROM: Isis, (1976), Song, US
- John Irving (1)
- IN: Last Night in Twisted River (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I had a job in the great north woods
Working as a cook for a spell
But I never did like it all that much
And one day the ax just fell.
FROM: "Tangled Up in Blue", (1975), Song, US
- Ron Irwin (1)
- IN: Flat Water Tuesday (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain.
FROM: Not Dark Yet, (1997), Song, US
- Woody Guthrie (1)
- IN: House of Earth (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I ain't seen my family in twenty years
That ain't easy to understand
They may be dead by now
I lost track of them after they lost their land.
FROM: "Long and Wasted Years", (2012), Song, US
- Neil Gordon (1)
- IN: You're A Big Girl Now (2014) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Our conversation was short and sweet
It nearly swept my off-a my feet
And I'm back in the rain, oh, oh
And you are on dry land
You made it there somehow
You're a big girl now.
FROM: "You're a Big Girl Now", (1975), Song, US
- C.J Box (1)
- IN: Off the Grid (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: To live outside the law, you must be honest.
FROM: Absolutely Sweet Marie, (1966), Song, US
- Stephen Jarvis (1)
- IN: Death and Mr Pickwick (2015) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain.
FROM: Not Dark Yet, (1997), Song, US